Shoulder pain

That's how it started with me. I went to do my first set of flat barbell press and wham shooting pain on the inside of my left shoulder. Not so much the muscle it feels deeper than that but since that happened like a month ago it comes and goes. Still not 100% with chest so I'm not doin flat barbell cuz thats when I get the most pressure

The pain could be coming from small tears or a larger tear in your labrum inside your shoulder. My buddy tore his a year ago and had to hve surgery. I also have some small tears in my left labrum but never got surgery. I found that warming up my rotator cuffs before workouts and even trying to strengthen them made the pain from my labrum fade away. If you strengthen your rotator cuffs you don't have to rely on your labrum as much. Hope that helps... Btw use VERY LIGHT WEIGHT when warming up or strengthening rotator cuffs. Also make sure you are not going lower than parallel with your flat bench press. (bar shouldn't be touching chest)

The pain could be coming from small tears or a larger tear in your labrum inside your shoulder. My buddy tore his a year ago and had to hve surgery. I also have some small tears in my left labrum but never got surgery. I found that warming up my rotator cuffs before workouts and even trying to strengthen them made the pain from my labrum fade away. If you strengthen your rotator cuffs you don't have to rely on your labrum as much. Hope that helps... Btw use VERY LIGHT WEIGHT when warming up or strengthening rotator cuffs. Also make sure you are not going lower than parallel with your flat bench press. (bar shouldn't be touching chest)

Sounds like you don't know how to bench.

Originally Posted by hardgainerbwg

I know u shouldn't bounce the bar off ur chest but u shouldn't touch it to ur chest at all? Not even under complete control?

Anybody had tendinitis in the area between the front delt and the upper bicep? It's been 3 weeks for me outta the gym and there's still minor pain if I try to do Shoulder Presses or Chest flat/incline bench on the Smith Machine...

Anybody had tendinitis in the area between the front delt and the upper bicep? It's been 3 weeks for me outta the gym and there's still minor pain if I try to do Shoulder Presses or Chest flat/incline bench on the Smith Machine...

Do the shoulder warm-up vid that I posted and stop using the Smith machine.

I used to get shoulder pain and pain in my shoulder blades. Sometimes I would get tension headaches from the spasms in my shoulder blades. The best medicine for me is to PUSH against a wall or the floor as hard as possible. I figured this out when I decided to take a yoga class for my first time and we did a downward dog pose. I have to push really hard to make the tension in my shoulders and shoulder blades go away.

Great thread... Been suffering with the "internal" shoulder pains since I pretty much gave up contact sports, been massively aggravated since I started lifting.... Certainly will be trying the warm ups and repair reps...... Spot on fellas, fingers crossed.

I think you might have the same problem I did. I had that same pain every time I went to bench and it only got worse. I kept lifting heavy on it and the worse and worse it got. I went to the doctors and I had super bad tendinitis and bursitis. It only gets worse from there and u can mess up ur rotator cuff if u keep pushing it. The best thing the doc told me was to give it time and don't lift more than 10lbs on it